The categories for the items in the Seattle Neighborhood History Project fall into three main groups: (1) general neighborhood history; (2) buildings, businesses and organizations; and (3) neighborhood infrastructure and services. Many of the resources available on Seattle neighborhood history can be found by navigating to one of the thirty-five individual neighborhood pages or to the additional resources page on this site.

A few of the assets in this collection of over 1,000 items include: digitized photographs, maps, menus, oral histories and publications related to Seattle neighborhoods; a list of general sources particularly useful for neighborhood history research; the HistoryLink.org online encyclopedia; historical newspapers; and the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.